Boy, 14: I'll use my iPhone apps business to pay for school fees

A 14-year-old boy has become the capital's youngest iPhone entrepreneur after launching two applications for the device.

Dylan Maryk, from Kensington, now hopes to make enough money to pay his school fees from his apps, thousands of which have already been sold. "My father and I were trying to find a way I could make money," he said. "I came up with the idea for my first app - an alarm clock that wakes you up with your own music."

Dylan, who attends Ashbourne College in Kensington, said the 59p AlarmMusic application has been downloaded almost 3,000 times. His second, iSpy, is an electronic version of the game.

Dylan produced a business plan and presented it to his family. They invested £800 to launch the business, called MicroApps, and designed and built a website. "Once we start making profits I will pay them back. Until now, I've just designed them and then got someone else to write them," he said. "However, I'm going to try to write the next one myself. I'd like to be able to do this full-time. I already tell people my job is an iPhone developer."

His father Denis said: "We're incredibly proud. Dylan was always very good with computers so this seemed an obvious way for him to make money."